We could have designed automobiles the same way. My grandfather claimed he used the same straight razor for 70 years. It had three new blades and two new handles. How much of the original B-52 is really original? Of course that's the point. We allow our manufactures to design, engineer, and produce goods that are not upgrade-able.
We should make sure we follow your easier/better/faster/cheaper criteria. Many times we apply technology and this does not occur. All we are doing is increasing complexity and thereby lowering quality. Some of us can remember when "quality" was a measure of mean-time to failure.
Part of the problem is the Psychology of people who "know they are right". Why would you listen to counter arguments when you know you are right?
The Christians know they are right. They have Faith! There is a lot more to their Psychology than creationism. I was raised in a fundamentalist household. I wondered as an eight year old why only hillbillies knew the truth. My family, even today, is anti-intellectual. When asked they will say that All Truth is in the Bible! So fighting creationism is a loosing battle. We have to fight the underlying Psychology
We seem to really be convinced that Ft. Mead is the only such place on the planet. We have to take into consideration that Russia, China, etc. have their own national security agencies. Now, their spy agencies are more effective than ours! Since ours has been damaged we should ask these other nations to show the world the inner workings of their spy agencies.
Give the probable existence of these other spy agencies do we still feel Ed Snowden did a good thing?
Well said - - - Let the Snowden lovers move to China or Russia for a while. We may rest assured that no Chinese or Russian journalist would publish their version of a Snowden. The NSA does need more careful control. At the same time Snowden is a traitor.
I am surprised Dr. Dobbs would publish this. Maybe they are trying to politely/indirectly send a message to the ObamaCare software folks. The requirements for testing and re-factoring will never go away. But since it was invented by people over 55 it can't be useful in "modern" programming!
This is kind of a "Blade Runner" issue. We persons are programmed by our families and society. After that we don't even think about the basis for these issues. We just know it's important. But don't know why.
We are forgetting what we are really burning. We are burning the topsoil of the American mid-west. It is NOT a renewable resource. The big corn-farms must be owned by big business who don't care about the farmers grandchildren.
The conclusion "It just depends" is true, but not very useful. There is some initial confusion here where we act like Google does "data processing". Google does "information processing". Would you want your bank to use the Google style of information retrieval to calculate your checking account?
Plus, we need a bit of strategic thinking here. All large corporations should have and use a Data Architecture which includes two major components - Add, Change, Delete data stores and Reporting/Querying data stores (from which Information is garnered). There is a fundamental rule - There can be no end-user querying against the Add, Change, Delete data stores. Twenty five years ago, Bill Inmon observed that with this architecture you have "underhead". But in addition to the simplicity inherent in this fundamental data architecture we should take into consideration that we can make as many copies of the Reporting/Querying data stores as we want. This all by itself handles the issue of many many users of a single data store. But in addition to mearly copying the Reporting/Querying data stores we reduce the size of each segment by some tactical criterion - geography, customer type, goods purchased, etc. Proper data architecture solves the problem being addressed by NoSQL in typical corporations - Amazon, Bank of Americal, Smith Barney, State Farm, etc. NoSQL is a better tool for information corportions like Google.
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We could have designed automobiles the same way. My grandfather claimed he used the same straight razor for 70 years. It had three new blades and two new handles. How much of the original B-52 is really original? Of course that's the point. We allow our manufactures to design, engineer, and produce goods that are not upgrade-able.
We should make sure we follow your easier/better/faster/cheaper criteria. Many times we apply technology and this does not occur. All we are doing is increasing complexity and thereby lowering quality. Some of us can remember when "quality" was a measure of mean-time to failure.
No they don't - - - 90% find it socially unacceptable to say what they believe
Part of the problem is the Psychology of people who "know they are right". Why would you listen to counter arguments when you know you are right? The Christians know they are right. They have Faith! There is a lot more to their Psychology than creationism. I was raised in a fundamentalist household. I wondered as an eight year old why only hillbillies knew the truth. My family, even today, is anti-intellectual. When asked they will say that All Truth is in the Bible! So fighting creationism is a loosing battle. We have to fight the underlying Psychology
I recommend we start with "How to Read a Book", Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
We seem to really be convinced that Ft. Mead is the only such place on the planet. We have to take into consideration that Russia, China, etc. have their own national security agencies. Now, their spy agencies are more effective than ours! Since ours has been damaged we should ask these other nations to show the world the inner workings of their spy agencies. Give the probable existence of these other spy agencies do we still feel Ed Snowden did a good thing?
Well said - - - Let the Snowden lovers move to China or Russia for a while. We may rest assured that no Chinese or Russian journalist would publish their version of a Snowden. The NSA does need more careful control. At the same time Snowden is a traitor.
Do you have examples of innocent people being put on "no-fly" or being blacklisted or are you just making that up??
I am surprised Dr. Dobbs would publish this. Maybe they are trying to politely/indirectly send a message to the ObamaCare software folks. The requirements for testing and re-factoring will never go away. But since it was invented by people over 55 it can't be useful in "modern" programming!
This is kind of a "Blade Runner" issue. We persons are programmed by our families and society. After that we don't even think about the basis for these issues. We just know it's important. But don't know why.
We are forgetting what we are really burning. We are burning the topsoil of the American mid-west. It is NOT a renewable resource. The big corn-farms must be owned by big business who don't care about the farmers grandchildren.
I agree. Starting over is usually cheaper, faster, better. BUT why doesn't the government buy or subcontract an Einsurance company??
The conclusion "It just depends" is true, but not very useful. There is some initial confusion here where we act like Google does "data processing". Google does "information processing". Would you want your bank to use the Google style of information retrieval to calculate your checking account? Plus, we need a bit of strategic thinking here. All large corporations should have and use a Data Architecture which includes two major components - Add, Change, Delete data stores and Reporting/Querying data stores (from which Information is garnered). There is a fundamental rule - There can be no end-user querying against the Add, Change, Delete data stores. Twenty five years ago, Bill Inmon observed that with this architecture you have "underhead". But in addition to the simplicity inherent in this fundamental data architecture we should take into consideration that we can make as many copies of the Reporting/Querying data stores as we want. This all by itself handles the issue of many many users of a single data store. But in addition to mearly copying the Reporting/Querying data stores we reduce the size of each segment by some tactical criterion - geography, customer type, goods purchased, etc. Proper data architecture solves the problem being addressed by NoSQL in typical corporations - Amazon, Bank of Americal, Smith Barney, State Farm, etc. NoSQL is a better tool for information corportions like Google.